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CV

Sections

Education
Research Interests
Major Awards and Grants
Publications
Teaching Experience
Research Experience
Selected Presentations
Mentoring
Service
Additional Academic Training
Other Funding and Awards
Reviewer
Professional Memberships

Easton R. White
Research Associate
Department of Biology, University of Vermont
63 Carrigan Drive, 358 Jeffords Hall, Burlington, VT 05405-0086 USA
Easton.White@uvm.edu | https://eastonwhite.github.io/

Education


2018 Ph.D. in Population Biology University of California, Davis
2013 B.S. in Biology, Minor Mathematics Arizona State University
2010 Associate of Science Scottsdale Community College

Research Interests


Quantitative ecology, marine ecology, population biology, fisheries, marine protected areas, biology education, active learning, decision theory, species monitoring, conservation science

Major Awards and Grants


In review PI for working group funds through the Canadian Institute of Ecology and Evolution ($11,410)
2019-2024 (CO-PIs) Baker-Medard Merrill, White Easton R., and Elizabeth Fairchild. Socio-Ecological Feedbacks of Marine Protected Areas: Dynamics of Small-Scale Fishing Communities and Inshore Marine Ecosystems. National Science Foundation CNH2: Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems. $602,320
2018 Graduate Teaching Award, University of California, Davis
2017-2018 Professor for the Future fellow
2014-2017 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
2013-2014 Canada Fulbright Awardee

Publications


Google Scholar profile ResearchGate Profile
*Indicates undergraduate or graduate student mentee

In the pipeline (preprint and/or in review)

4 White, Easton R. and Christie A. Bahlai. Experimenting with the Past to Improve Environmental Monitoring Programs. EcoEvoRxiv. In review at Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment PDF
3 White, Easton R., Marissa L. Baskett, and Alan Hastings. Catastrophes, connectivity, and Allee effects in the design of marine reserve networks. bioRxiv. PDF
2 White, Easton R., Kalle Parvinen, and Ulf Dieckmann. Environmental variability and phenology evolution: impacts of climate change and spring onset on reproductive timing in a small mammal. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27435v1. PDF
1 White, Easton R. and Alan Hastings. Seasonality in ecology: Progress and prospects in theory. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27235v1. In review at Ecological Complexity PDF

Published

11 White, Easton R.,*Kyle Cox, Brett Melbourne, and Alan Hastings. In press. Ecological management depends strongly on stochasticity: an experimental test. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PDF PDF Github
10 Rodriguez-Caro, Roberto C., Thorsten Wiegand, Easton R. White, Ana Sanz-Aguilar, Andres Gimenez, Eva Gracia, and Jose D. Anadon. 2019. A low cost approach to estimate demographic rates using inverse modelling. Biological Conservation. PDF PDF
9 Fournier, Auriel, Easton R. White, and Stephen Heard. 2019. Site-selection bias can drive apparent population declines in long-term studies. Conservation Biology. PDF PDF Github
8 White, Easton R. 2019. Minimum time required to detect population trends: the need for long-term monitoring programs. Bioscience. Selected as Editors’ Choice article PDF PDF Github
7 White, Easton R. and Andrew T. Smith. 2018. The role of spatial structure in the collapse of regional metapopulations. Ecology. PDF PDF Github
6 White, Easton R. Mark C. Myers, Joanna Mills Flemming, and Julia K. Baum. 2015. Shifting elasmobranch community assemblage at Cocos Island - an isolated marine protected area. Conservation Biology. PDF PDF Github
5 White, Easton R. John D. Nagy, and Samuel H. Gruber. 2014. Modeling the population dynamics of lemon sharks. Biology Direct 9(1): 1-23 PDF PDF Github
4 Kessel S. T., Chapman D. D., Franks B. R., Gedamke T., Gruber S. H., Newman J. M., White E. R. and Perkins R. G. 2014. Predictable temperature regulated residency, movement and migration in a large, highly-mobile marine predator. Marine Ecology Progress Series 514 PDF PDF
3 Robinson, James P.W., Easton R. White, Logan D. Wiwchar, Danielle C. Claar, Justin P. Suraci, Julia K. Baum. 2014. The limitations of diversity metrics in directing marine global marine conservation. Marine Policy 48:123-125 PDF PDF Github
2 Gerber, Leah R. and Easton R. White. 2014. Two-sex matrix models in assessing population viability: when do male dynamics matter? Journal of Applied Ecology 51(1): 270-278 PDF PDF
1 Senko, Jesse, Easton R. White, Sellina S. Heppell, and Leah R. Gerber. 2014. A comparison of fishery management strategies for mitigating bycatch of vulnerable marine megafauna species. Animal Conservation 17(1): 5-18 PDF PDF

Teaching Experience

University of Vermont
2019 Instructor, Foundations of Quantitative Reasoning (BIO381, PhD-level).
University of California, Davis
2017-2018 Instructor, BIS2B Ecology and Evolution Bridge Program (Bootcamp), Biology Undergraduate Scholars Program
2018 Instructor, Science Education and Outreach.
2018 Instructor, Building your personal baloney detection kit, First Year Seminar program
2017 Guest Lecturer, Mathematical methods in population biology (graduate-level PBG231)
Software Carpentry
2014-2019 Instructor for nine two-day workshops in North America (R, shell, and version control)
University of Victoria
2014 Teaching Assistant, Advanced Ecology (BIO470)

Research Experience

2019-2024 PI on coupled socio-ecological systems project focused on Madagascar coral reef fisheries
2014-2018 Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis, Advisor: Alan Hastings
2016 Intern, Young Scientist Summer Program, Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna, Austria
2013-2014 Canada Fulbright Awardee, University of Victoria, Canada, Advisor: Julia Baum
2012-2013 Researcher, Gerber Lab: Marine Population Biology, Arizona State University, Advisor: Leah Gerber
2009-2013 Researcher, SCC/ASU Evolutionary Dynamics Laboratory, Advisor: John Nagy
2011-2012 Intern, Bimini Biological Field Station, Bimini, Bahamas, Supervisor: Samuel Gruber

Selected Presentations


Mentoring

University of California, Davis
Summer 2018-Spring 2019 Erica Kono, Independent Research Project
Summer 2018-Spring 2019 Reece Schweibold, Independent Research Project
Summer 2018-Spring 2019 Charlotte Rappel, Independent Research Project
Spring 2018-Summer 2018 Ivan Beas, Honors Thesis
Spring 2017- Summer 2018 Kyle Cox, Contributed to research project and publication
Winter 2016-Summer 2016 Jeni Boyer, Independent Research Project
Winter 2016-Summer 2016 Annie Maliguine, Independent Research Project
University of Victoria
Fall 2013-Winter 2014 Mitra Nikoo, Contributed to research project
Winter 2014 Jessica Holden, Contributed to research project
Winter 2014 Michael Sullivan, Contributed to research project
Scottsdale Community College
Spring 2012-Spring 2013 Andrew Nemecek, Independent Research Project
Spring 2012-Spring 2013 Sabrina Jones, Independent Research Project

Service


2018-Present QuEST NSF-traineeship Leadership Team
2016-2018 Founder, Population Biology Diversity Committee
2017-2018 Instructor, Skype a Scientist program
2015 Volunteer tutor, STEM Cafe
2012-2014 Cofounder and educator, Mathematics without Boundaries

Additional Academic Training


2017-2018 Professors for the Future Program, University of California, Davis
2018 University Ethics and Professionalism
2017 Seminar on College Teaching
2017 Center for Educational Excellence Workshop Series
2015-2018 Graduate Teaching Community Workshop Series
2014 Software Carpentry Instructor Course
2014 Mathematics Teaching Workshop, University of Victoria

Other Funding and Awards


2014-2019 Various Software Carpentry travel awards
2019 Canadian Institute for Ecology and Evolution honorarium ($1,200)
2018 UC Davis Graduate Teaching Award ($500)
2018 UC Davis Graduate Studies Travel Grant ($1,000)
2018 Population Biology Travel Grant ($800)
2016 SIAM Travel Grant ($650)
2016 Population Biology Research Grant ($1,666)
2016 National Academy of Science Travel Grant ($4,400)
2015 Mathematical Biosciences Institute traval grant ($750)
2014 NSF Travel Award ($1,700)
2014 Fulbright student mobility award ($800)
2013 NSF Travel Award ($1,300)
2013 Outstanding Graduating Senior ($500)
2010-2012 All-Arizona Academic Team Tuition Waiver ($20,000)

Reviewer


Communications Biology, Ecography, Ecological Modelling, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, PeerJ, PLoSONE, NOAA Grant Review, Science, Theoretical Ecology

Professional Memberships


American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE)
Ecological Society of America (ESA)
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB)
Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER)